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KENNEDY FIELD- This has got to be the feel-good story of the year. My intrepid neighbors made their feelings known and, at least for now, the hideous scheme to relocate the City corporation yard to the ball field across from the Zoo is on hold. Kudos to those who took the lead on this. I’ve driven past that field for twenty years and never knew it was called Kennedy Field.

HOBBY LOBBY- the right-wing Christian-owned store opened in Redding this week, with a staff of 80!! It’s supposed to be like a MIchael’s on steroids. This was the company that wouldn’t provide contraceptive care in its health plan. Bring me a plastic Jesus if you go.

HAVE YOU BEEN EQUIFAXED?? I got an email from Equifax telling me my data MAY have been breached and asking me to fill out a form including my FULL SSN. I’ve decided to ignore it. I don’t need their monitoring to keep track of my two credit cards. I’ve been there before. When I was working for the State, we all got hacked and they told us to notify the three credit agencies and get copies of our credit reports. THAT was a revelation. All the credit reports could have qualified for the Pulitzer prize for Fiction but Equifax was the craziest. The showed me as having several charge accounts at Dayton-Hudson, a store in Minneapolis. I’ve never been to Minneapolis except passingthrough on the train. They would only correct errors one at a time! You had to keep calling and calling. Someday when I have absolutely nothing else to do, I will worry about my credit reports.

FAREWELL CARPATHIAN!!! What a horrible development! I’ve dragged three or four people to Carpathian shows . They were wonderful ! I never figured out whether he/she /it was male or female. Child molestation is a tragedy whenever it happens, or is even alleged. There is no good outcome.

THOSE BAGS OF HERSHEY’S HALLOWE’EN FUN-SIZE BARS have settled into a price of 2/$7 IF you can find them. Don’t pay any more. If you see them cheaper, let us know. Hershey’s has started including the vile Twix in their bags. Twix just doesn’t cut it. I discovered Skittles this past year. They’re good!

MURPHY’S TO THE RESCUE- I am an almost daily visitor to the Cutten Murphy’s. Last week I apparently got separated from my wallet there. I didn’t even know it till I got a call at 11pm from Joseph letting me know they had my wallet and it looked like everything was there. Everything was and the Murphy’s staff has my eternal gratitude. Support your local markets!

SI NEWHOUSE died the other day. He was in his ‘nineties and most of you have probably never heard of him but his family’s wealth and patience have kept The New Yorker afloat for many years while other magazines bit the dust. I literally learned to read from The New Yorker, hanging in my aunt’s madrone tree in Mill Valley. Well, that and Little Lulu comics. SUPPORT THE BEST MAGAZINE IN THE WORLD. $99 for print AND digital if you get in on a promotion.

“PUERTO RICO’S DEBT MUST BE WIPED OUT” says our Fake President, who obviously has no plan to do so. Maybe he’s so dumb he thinks territories can just file bankruptcy like he did. Four times.

GOODBYE COLUMBUS? When I was growing up, Columbus Day was a day to honor our Italian citizens, not a glorification of the oppression of Native Americans. Outside New York and SF, I guess no one has parades any more but I hope the holiday survives. We need an October holiday and why not have a Native Peoples’ Day during another month?

TEA FOR THE TILLERSON- Overnight the most useless Secretary of State in history has secured his everlasting fame. For the record, Tillerson is not accused of calling Trump a “moron”. The exact term was “fucking moron”, which sounds about right. Trump, who seems to think he can govern by tweeting, is about to lose another Cabinet secretary to join those who have already proven themselves too corrupt or stupid to serve in government and those who have or are going to quit out of frustration with the man-child in the White House.

THE SPOOKS ON HARRISON- That wonderful family across from the Immanuel Church has their display up again, eight spooks dancing around in a circle This year they have an addition, a ghoulish “Last Supper” display. Thank you. folks! If you see any outstanding Hallowe’en displays, let us know. We’ll spread the word.

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